Improvement in churns



UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

EMIL FRANK AND JOHN KISSLING, OF RAHWAY, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN CHURNS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 178,136, dated May 30, 1876; application filed April 21, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, EMIL FRANK and JOHN KISSLING, of Railway, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey, have invented 'a new and useful Improvement in Rotary (Jhurns, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing,.which represents a side elevation of our churn partly in section.

Our invention relates especially to that class of churns in which the tub and the dasher are adapted to revolve in opposite directions; and it consists in a peculiar mechanism for operating these parts; also in a novel arrangement of parts to permit of disconnecting and removing the churn from the working mechanism.

The stem of the dasher is stepped in the bottom of the tub, and passes loosely through the lid thereof, while it is geared to a drivingshaft, to which is geared also a counter-stem, which, in turn, is geared to the tub in such a manner that, by imparting a revolving motion to the driving-shaft, the flasher-stem and the tub are revolved in opposite directions. The bottom of the tub has asocket-piece on its under side, by means of which the tub is connected to the arbor of its driving-wheel, and

the dasher-steln is made in jointed sections, so that by the socket-piece conjointly with the sectional stem the tub together with the dasher can readily be disconnected and re moved from the working mechanism.

D, which latter are firmly secured to the dasherstem. The dasher-stem B is stepped in the bottom of the tub A, as at E, in any suitable manner, and it is passed loosely through the lid of the tub, while at its upper end the stem carries a gear-wheel, F, which meshes in a cor- The dasher is composed of K, both the stem and the arbor of this wheel K being stepped in the platform of the 'frame N. The wheel K forms the. driving mediumof the tub .A, and the upper part of its arbor is squared, as at a. Said wheel K -is connected to the tub by means of a socket-piece, L, formed or fastened on the underside of the tub bottom, this socket-piece being fitted and placed loosely on the square part a of the wheel-arbor, so that'by simply lifting the'tub it can be disconnected and removed. The dasher-stem B is made in two parts, which are jointed as seen at 0, the joint being made in that part of the stem situated above the tub. It will be seen that when the dasherstem is disconnected at the joint 0, the tub A'c'an be moved sidewise, so as to permit of lifting and removing it. When the tub has been removed, the dasher can readily be taken out of it by removing its lid.

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination of the tub A and the dasher-stem B, stepped in the bottom of the tub, and made to pass loosely through its lid, the driving-gear F F I l K K, the shaft G, and counter-stem J, the whole being arranged and adapted to operate substantially as described.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 11th day of April, 1876.

EMIL FRANK. [L. s.]

JOHN KISSLING. [L. s.] Witnesses:

JAMES H. DURAND, JOHN KISSLING, Jr. 

